Why is Everything SO EXPENSIVE in Rec Room?

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Published 2022-09-29
Lots of clarifications and stuff for this video are in the description!
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First off, I know that in this video I might make it sound like Rec Room is being greedy with these decisions or that this was all one big scheme to make a bunch of money and scam people, but that isn't what I am actually going for at all. I do not blame any of the Rec Room or Ink Inc staff for these decisions and I don't think it was all planned to turn out this way. I am simply looking at the current state of the token economy and discussing it, that is all. If you have a problem with Rec Room's decisions I talk about in this video then you might as well just blame capitalism, not Rec Room.

Second, I know that as long as there are microtransactions in Rec Room, there will always be a class difference between those who buy stuff and those who don't. The goal of the solutions discussed is just to try and make the class difference not as unfair for the lower class as it currently is. And yes, I am aware of the kind of real world connections this video could have. Does this video count as promoting socialism lol

Third, I know that there was a time before tokens where you would get random outfit items for completing games. I did not mention this in the video because I did not feel it was important to the overall goal I was going for.

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Intro - 0:00
Sponsor - 0:45
History of Tokens - 1:27
Establishing the Classes - 3:05
The Current Issues - 4:12
Possible Solutions - 6:27

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All Comments (21)
  • @BVR
    subscribe if you are in the lower class and want more tokens (or if you are in the middle class (or if you are in the upper class (also use my code rec.net/?a=BVRR thanks)))
  • I’m glad someone finally addressed this issue. I’ve had lots of frustration lately because of these obvious token scams. As time goes on cosmetics are just getting really expensive. As someone that most definitely is in the lower class of rec room, I find it very difficult to get any tokens. Heck, I’ve been at 400 tokens for a month now. It seems as though token boxes have gotten more rare but I honestly can’t tell. The way I see it, my outfit will stay the same so there is no reason to buy new stuff. In general, this is something that more people need to be aware of.
  • @RangerRay01
    I totally agree with this video. Its sad to see new players grind in paintball to just be awarded 10, 25 or 50 tokens. There should be a default option so you can receive tokens instead of player cosmetics. I think it’s extremely greedy of recroom to price items so high that the average player would have to pay REAL money in order to purchase something they like. RecRoom goes against their own saying “We value long term relationships than making a quick buck”. Although recroom is free to play, it seems like u have to pay to really have fun 😢
  • @turnerkid5732
    We shouldn't get told on how we price our inventions. We made it, so we get to decide if we want to price under 250 tokens.
  • @ImJustAJustin
    mans just educated the rec room university with class consciousness
  • My dude, Rec Room is supposed to be a kid's game, not a full on own-functioning-government! seriously though, this video is really well made, I wanted to address the same issue on my own channel but you've completely nailed it, great video!
  • Yes I love the idea of low, but consistent token rewards. Zerax touched on this already, but isle, crescendo, and laser tag have a very good system in place, you can grind it out and get that midnight, or you can get a necklace and be happy with it. The problem with tokens now is that they lack consistency, whereas before the “more rewards” update you could do all three daily challenges and get a consistent 150 tokens every time. Even if rec room brought that back with the amount you get being lower I think it would still make the community allot happier.
  • My way of saving tokens are just saving my token boxes until there is a major event, THATS when i’ll open my boxes and spend them all. so i think im more like a middle class 🤔
  • @nbdennis4570
    I don’t care what anyone else says this man was saying f*cking facts the entire video.
  • @Jeb.07
    I’m surprised you didn’t cover the whole rec trooper bundle kerfuffle that happened recently. They removed 15 non-limited pieces of clothing from the store to combine them into one bundle. It was +107% value, but there was no warning of it and those who wanted any individual pieces of one of the sets then had to buy all of it, and now it’s not buyable at all 😓
  • I love how my dude just started spitting facts about digital economics, and I am absolutely here for it. Something that just annoys me that us lower class don't have any benefits. I just came home from a tiring day of school, so my bad if I sound extremely stupid with this, but I believe that it'd be better if we didn't have to buy RR+ just to sell inventions. We can't sell anything, it's like a one-in-a-million chance for you to actually be able to GET tokens from the reward boxes, and everything is overpriced. It just isn't fair imo :/
  • @Havox-
    i've been playing rec room 5-4 years now and I couldn't agree more, I remember making 250 to 500 tokens for playing dodgeball and I got it pretty consistently but now when i grind because i don't have enough actual money to climb to the middle class I've been in the lower class for years grinding my butt of just to get a measly 400 or 300 tokens after 5 hours, I hate it so much,I don't remember the last time I crossed the 10k freshold, just recently I bought a pack for 9.99 that gave me 7.5 k tokens and already I'm starting to feel like I'm spinning seeing how everything is so expensive that I just want to keep my tokens mostly because I could buy 1 or 2 good things with that much, I hope they change this soon.
  • @WillVR
    This might sound a little cheesy, but there should be a check in/calendar rewards system so that every day you get tokens, and the more times you log in you get more. However, if you are a new user or returning user (last online months ago), you get more tokens then the average check in, more like a new account check in. I’m praying someone knows what I’m talking about.
  • honestly I think every 24 hours when you log In for free 2 plays you get around 100-200 tokens for just logging In
  • I feel like that for boxes, instead of getting a tie, film, and pizza, the boxes should always have 150-1500 tokens in them.
  • @MarcelWitteman
    bvr : talking about how tokens are expensive the quick glace we see at his token balance : thats nice
  • @KM7onYT
    How I do my stuff is that I usually put everything from around 25 to 500 tokens in like a gift shop and then the donations is what's from like $500 to like a 3000 or something
  • @milkylul8868
    Wow this kinda sounds like another real life economy
  • @GreiXD
    Usually in my boxes I get maybe 2k to 3k depending on how many events I host that week. Anyway great vid dude! 👍
  • @Aayan1112
    Its Nice to see BVR takling about it, because Ive been Playing since 2020 and only Got like 10.000 tokens